Sari Pöyhönen

Sari Pöyhönen, senior researcher in CALS, has expertise in researching identities and school ethnography. Topics that she has investigated so far include the professional identity of Finnish language teachers in Russia, ethnic and linguistic identities of Ingrian teachers, and pedagogical cultures in transition. In this project, she focuses on the ways in which immigrant pupils construct and manifest their identities in both out-of-school and in-school literacy practices.